Sevilla FC: The arrow, the chest and the butt

If a club hires three coaches in nine months, the crime wasn’t committed by the butler with the chandelier in the kitchen. This is not ‘Cluedo’ and it is not a game. It’s real life. If a professional club fires two coaches and hires a third in the same season, the matter is clearer than the mush of a nursing home. Things are not done right. Shared responsibility begins in the penalty area, where the managers and promoters of the greatest podium in club history have made a mistake. Too many. The same recipe applies to a team that may not have the level to play in the Champions League, but that needs to ask for much more than flirting with relegation and alternating a decent game with three horrible ones. There is no shortage of doomsayers who, stuffed with caviar, are now protesting during the mortadella season. Is human. This is less true for those who have dreamed for years of a match and a can of petrol to watch the sea burn. Sevilla FC. And this time they may be right, because Sevilla are playing with fire.

Sampaoliif Lopetegui, has been the son of his results. If a coach is not part of the solution, he always becomes part of the problem. For Sevillism, which has the standard requirement and takes no prisoners, even those who know that the problem has not been the coach, the body asked them for a new course. Priority, get the team out of the abyss. Later, although the nightmare has a happy ending and the stars line up to show off their hearts in Europe, Sevilla will rethink the club’s future. Among other things, because in addition to the institutional turmoil and internal wars, there is something that distinguishes the Sevilla player: his maximum demand. After all, the fan, from Tribuna to Gol Sur, is an endangered species: the seville player does eat seville player meat. That will be in the summer. Now, in the spring, it’s time to save yourself. Throwing Sampaoli out is expensive, but it is immensely cheaper than a relegation. Hence the need to do without a sinking captain and look for another to fetch him. Objective: to save the season without mortgaging the next.

appears on that horizon Jose Luis Mendilibar. A man with experience, identified with a direct, aggressive and vertical football. To save the team in record time, you must apply shock therapy. Convince players that they are much better than they appear now. And of course win. A bus from the old school arrives in Nervión. One of those who, like the deceased Luis AragonesHe usually says go fuck yourself more often than good morning. One of those who speak football and not the new dialects of the low block and intervals. If the locker room is won, the team will restore self-esteem and positions. If the team doesn’t believe you, the ship will sink. Coach and team will have to get on the moving train, because the stands don’t wait for anyone anymore. Seville is clear. If you must die, better with an arrow in the chest than with one in the ass.

Reuben Uria